Memory Techniques

Here are 12 memory techniques. You may not find all of them useful, but read through each section and try using the ones that fit your learning style. Not all these ideas will work for everyone, but you should find something new here!

There are 4 areas here:

Be Organized

1. Learn from the general to the specific.

Get an overview to use as a framework on which to hang specific details.

2. Make it meaningful and relevant to you.

Relate what you learn to your goals (to what you want to get from your education) and to what you have learned previously.

3. Create associations.

Store new data near similar or related data – fit new material in with what you already know.

Be Physical

4. Learn it actively.

Reinforce the words with action. Stand up, sit up straight, pace back and forth, and/or gesture with your hands to get your body involved when you study.